Friday, December 3, 2004 Well it looks like the brown out isn’t going to be as long as we thought. We saw them fixing the polls that were down in Calintaan earlier today. Sadly enough, I’m a little bit disappointed…
First lesson with the minister’s son
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Today was a good teaching day. We taught five lessons in total. Three of which were taught to new finds off of OYMs. One of the lessons was to the son of the Inglecian minister in…
Ako Pa!
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 We went back into San Jose today for our P-Day activities. We spend a good amount of time at the internet shop doing email and also getting pictures put onto my CD. We also got to…
Air Conditioning!
Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Air conditioning is a great thing! We got to sit in glorious cool air for a whole two hours today. It was like I’d died and gone to heaven. I got to teach another attributes lesson…
Still no power
Monday, November 29, 2004 Today we had a really strange discussion with an old man in an old falling apart cubo[1] hut. We worked the whole morning in Panay and got turned down all the time so we went out…
Church is “crazy” again
Sunday, November 28, 2004 Church was really crazy today. All of the people, mostly, didn’t get there until half way through priesthood meeting. Elder Cox was giving a really good lesson about tithing and having them come in half way…
The Manzo’s Baptism
Saturday, November 27, 2004 Well we finally had the baptism of the Manzo Family. We were at the church at about 8:30 because the service was supposed to start at 9:00 and we wanted to meet them and get them…
Lots of good work
Friday, November 26, 2004 Today was a really effective day. This morning we went to try to help Bro Romell start building his house. We got to his lot at about 8:15 and just waited. He apparently doesn’t know how…
Thanksgiving with no power
Thursday, November 25, 2004 For Thanksgiving “feast” today we ate a can of mostly beef in fat. We also made the rest of the mashed potatoes that the Pyrons left us when they went home. It was okay but not…
A trip to Sablayan
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 No entry from my journal this day but I have some photos from the little trip we took up north to Sablayan. Our area was huge and so we decided to explore. Sitting in the house…